The Israel Langsam Family

Some background email from the family can be found here.

Israel Langsam (c.1830's - ?) had three known children.

• Mayer married Feiga (Ita Faiga) Sussfein. They lived in Galicia (Poland) and had ten children. Reportedly, one of his sons went back to Europe between 1936 and 1938 to try and persuade them to come to the USA. They declined and presumably perished in the Holocaust.
  • Miriam (c. 1880 - c. 1942) married Joseph David Kornhauser and had four children. She perished in the Holocaust.
    Helen Wigdor, Avrohm, Isidore, & Rose Grossman
  • Rochel (1886 - 1936) was born in Przemysl, Poland, and died in Istrik, Poland. In 1926, when she was a resident of Brelikow, Poland (as per the JewishGen marriage index for Lesko) she married Volf Sommer, a Biana Chasid, and had four children. The family lived in Motreal, QC, Canada in the early 1940's. Volf came before them.
    Ginny Rones, Raizel Nelken, Esther Weinberg, & Lilly Katz
  • Dave married Francine late in life. They adopted a son, Marty. Dave's occupation was in Real Estate. He is also referenced under tree snippet H77.
  • Sam (Apr 22, 1889 - Oct 1985) never married.
  • Shea (? - 1942) was married and had two boys. According to Mrs. Lilly Katz, in a conversation on 26 Jun 2001, Shea was quite wealthy and that is why he stayed in Europe. They lived in Kroscienko, Galicia (Poland). In the 1930's they all moved to Estrak (Usteki Dolna), where they thought it might be safer. His entire family perished in the Holocaust. She also mentioned another Langsam family living in Pszemysl, in the iron business. Mrs. Katz did not know of a relationship with them.
    boy & boy
  • Morris (Oct 10, 1898 - Jan 1984) married Minny and had two children. They lived in San Francisco, CA.
    Fred & Bella
  • Irving (1900 - ?) was born in Lesko, Galicia (Poland), and died in California, USA. He married Frances and had two children
    Helen Cherry & Marvin
  • Sylvia (Apr 26, 1900 - Oct 1985) was married and soon thereafter divorced. She had one son who related that his mother lived in San Francisco, CA, and retained her maiden name.
    Sol
  • Beatrice married a man named De Stafano. They lived in St. Petersberg and had two sons.
    boy & boy
  • Jack (May 8, 1902 - Oct 2, 1995) had never married and lived in San Francisco. He had a furniture store but made his real money in commercial real estate. After his passing he left money for all his nephews and nieces, but the bulk he left to charity. Mr. Sol Langsam looked after Jack in his last five years. He was a member of the Webster Street Shul (Knesset Israel) and more recently Temple Sherith Israel.
• Chaim married Rose and had nine children.
  • Mark (Marek on the records before 1952) (15 Sep 1901 - 6 Nov 1952) was married twice, before and after the war. According to Mr. Norm Scheiner, in a conversation on 20 Jun 2001, Mark's first family perished in the Holocaust. They were living in Lemberg (Lviv) and Pszemysl at the time. Mark alone survived and married Ida Goldwater in Krakow, Poland on 27 Nov 1945. They came to the New York aboard the SS Marine Marlin on 7 Jun 1947. They settled in San Francisco where he fathered an only child, Charley. Mark was in the liquor business with his cousin, Irving Langsam (son of Mayer and Feiga). According to Mrs. Helen Cherry, in a conversation on 27 Jun 2001, Ida passed away in San Francisco, CA, and was buried in Israel.
    Charley (born after the war, married Valia Brodnick (1 Sep 1948 - 23 Sep 2009) in 1987. A retired pharmacist, Charley now resides in Baltimore, MD and works as a published writer.)
  • Esther married Pinkus Ber Schwartz and had eight (according to the ship manifest quoted via email by Lori Schwartz on 13 Mar 2018) or nine (according to Norm Scheiner in a conversation 20 Jun 2001.) children. Most of the family perished in the Holocaust.
    Isidore Louis, Sidney, Sylvia Rosenberg, Rose Scheiner, Eva, Oscar, Aron, Carl & child
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  • Mendel went to Palestine in 1938 and died in Israel in 1983.
• Yakov (1863 - March 19, 1949) was married to Chaya (Dora) and had five known children. He came to the USA around 1906. His family followed between 1909 and 1912. They settled in Pittsburgh, PA. His great-granddaughter, Michelle Neiman, relates that the family lived in the Pittsburg area and moved to San Francisco after a flood devastated their (furniture) business-probably the St. Patrick's Day Flood of 1936. Yakov's death certificate indicates that he was a bakery foreman. His final resting place is at Eternal Home Cemetery (36-B-16), Colma, CA, USA.
  • Samuel married Frieda. She died during childbirth with her only child. The burden was too great on Samuel, who gave his daughter over to Rose, Paul and Phillip to raise.
    Rose
  • Paul (1893 - ) as born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland. He came to the USA on 10 Dec 1909 aboard the Neckar via the port of Bremen, Germany. His Hebrew name was Pesach. His mother was still in Ustrzyki Dolne and he was going to his father. Philip never married.
  • Philip (1897 - ) was born in Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland. He came to the USA on 14 Aug 1912 aboard the Finland via the port of Antwerp. His Hebrew name was Pinchus. He was travelling with his two younger sisters and was going to his father at Clifton 186, Pittsburg PA. Philip never married.
  • Rose (1895 - ) never married. Her Hebrew name was Chukl (Chula). She never married
  • Anna (1903 - 23 July 1926) married William Neiman aka Wolf Neumann. They lived in Akron, Ohio. She gave birth to Harold on July 1, 1926 and died 22 days later on July 23, 1926. She was buried in Pittsburg, PA, somewhere supposedly with her mother, and an aunt.
    Harold

Some background email from the family can be found here.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone with knowledge or an interest in the Miller family.

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Last updated 1 Nov 2021